BOOK in Classic Quotes

1  And there his book knowledge stopped.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

2  Always fiddling with the piano or sticking their heads in a book.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V

3  "I suppose you understand him like a book," said Rhett maliciously.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

4  I'll look at his account book now, she thought and, picking up the lamp, she went into the front of the store.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

5  While he entertained the liveliest respect for those who had more book learning than he, he never felt his own lack.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

6  He can't no more keep a plow straight in a furrow than little Beau can, and what he don't know about makin things grow would fill a book.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX

7  He still liked her tremendously and respected her for her cool good breeding, her book learning and all the sterling qualities she possessed.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

8  Ellen arranged her skirts and sank to the floor on her knees, laying the open prayer book on the table before her and clasping her hands upon it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

9  When Ashley came to the part of the prayers concerning the souls in Purgatory, which Carreen had marked for him to read, he abruptly closed the book.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL

10  It was she who objected to the neighboring Protestant preachers and gave the matter into Ashley's hands, marking passages in her book for him to read.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL

11  Prompted by Mammy's hoarse whisper, Jack set his fly-brush in the corner and removed the dishes, while Mammy fumbled in the sideboard drawer for Ellen's worn prayer book.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

12  Mrs. Meade was looking down into her lap and she did not raise her head when her name was called, but the face of little Phil beside her was an open book that all might read.

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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

13  She sat quite still, with the heavy book across her lap, her mouth a little open with surprise, thinking that during the lean months at Tara she had done a man's work and done it well.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

14  Candy and flowers, dear," Ellen had said time and again, "and perhaps a book of poetry or an album or a small bottle of Florida water are the only things a lady may accept from a gentleman.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

15  She felt better when he was gone, for his disapproval annoyed her, and she settled herself in a split-bottomed chair by the roaring stove, tucked one foot under her and spread the book across her lap.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

16  But Carreen, deeper and deeper immersed in her prayer book and every day losing more of her touch with the world of realities, treated Will as gently as a brother and took him as much for granted as she did Pork.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX

17  Stuart and Brent considered their latest expulsion a fine joke, and Scarlett, who had not willingly opened a book since leaving the Fayetteville Female Academy the year before, thought it just as amusing as they did.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I